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No. 556,070. Patented Mar.-10, 18'96.

0 I 4 TTOHNEKS' ANDREW BGRAHAM,PNmO-UTIIONASHINGTUNJL. Y

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. SNIVELY AND JACOB HIRSCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLACKET-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 556,070, dated March10, 1896. A fi ati fil d November 19, 1895. Serial No. 569,407. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES H. SNIVELY and JACOB HIRSOH, citizens ofthe United States, and residents of New York, in the county of New Yorkand State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulIlnprovements in Fastening Devices for Gar-- ments or other Articles, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings,form ing a part thereof, in which similar lettersof reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to fastening devices, and particularly to thatclass thereof which are adapted for use in closing the placketopening ofa skirt, although, as will hereinafter appear, our improved fasteningdevice may be used for other and similar purposes.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is aview of our improved fastening device, showing the separate partsseparated and in full lines, and also showing the same united in dottedlines; Fig. 2, a central transverse section of the fastening devicesproper or the heads thereof, showing the method by which said parts areunited; and Fig. 3, a perspective'view of a cover of tape, cloth, orother material which we employ.

In the practice of our invention we provide two similar coupling headsor pieces Aand B, each of which is composed of a metal plate folded inthe middle, as shown at b and a in Fig. 2, and formed in the adjacentsides of said plates or heads are tongues or projections b and a,respectively, which are cut from the material of the plates or heads,one end and the sides thereof being out out and the body portion beingbent outwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, by which means slots or recesses band a are formed, over which the tongues or projections a and 2)project.

Each of the heads or fastening devices A and B is provided with an armD, the free ends of which are pivotally connected at G, and connectedwith said arms at G is a piece of tape or similar material H.

In practice we provide a cover for one of the heads or fastening devicescomposed of a piece of tape, cloth, or other and similar material K,which is folded in the middle, asshown in Fig. 3, and the centralportion of which is cut out, forming a longitudinal slot 11;, and, asshown in the drawings, this cover is secured to the head or fasteningdevice B by being folded thereover and stitched thereto around the edgesthereof.

The operation will be readily understood from the foregoing description,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

The fastening device is secured to, the skirt by means of the tape H,said tape being stitched within the skirt at the bottom of theplacket-opening, or in any other desired manner, and the heads orfastening devicesA and B are secured to the belt at the upper end ofsaid placket-opening and at each side thereof, or they may be secured tothe adjacent sides of the skirt below the belt, and when thus secured inposition all that is necessary to lock the. same together and securelyclose said opening is to draw the heads or fastening devices togetherand slightly past each other, so that the tongues or projections a and bmay interlock, as shown in Fig. 2, and in this position the heads orfastening devices will be securely held until they are again separatedby reversing the operation by which they were united.

It is evident that our improved fastening device may be employed inconnection with other garments or parts thereof, and our invention isnot limited to the exact form, construction, and arrangement of partsherein shown and described, and we therefore reserve the right to makeall such alterations therein and modifications thereof as fairly comewithin the scope of the invention.

Having fully described our invention, we claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent A placket-fastening for a skirt, comprising two separateheads, each of which is provided with an arm, the free ends of which arepivotally connected, said heads being also provided in theircorresponding sides with projections or tongues, and corresponding slotsor recesses adapted to engage with each other, said heads or fasteningdevices being each composed of a plate of metal which is folded presenceof the subscribing witnesses, this in the middle, one of said headsbeing pro- 15th day of November, 1895. vided with a covering of tape,cloth or other material, having a longitudinal central slot CHARLES II.SNIVELY. formed therein, substantially as shown and JACOB IIIRSCII.described. Witnesses:

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as O. GERST,

our invention we have signed our names, in G. V. KIRCHHOFF.

